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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]17:08 is a perfect example of this kind of thinking/jealousy.  If  your kid is reading at an earlier age than mine, it must be that you're a crazy parent pushing reading DVDs to toddlers!  Couldn't possibly be just that your kid happened to pick up reading earlier than her/his kid...[/quote]

Seriously not jealous at all. So explain how your kid just "happened to pick it up."  They taught themselves how to read?   :roll: [/quote]

My kid taught himself to read before age 3. I worked on the alphabet (and colors and numbers and counting) with him, but I wasn't pushing reading. He liked the show "Between the Lions" which has a phonics focus. He watched some "Between the Lions" and started reading on his own.  He could both decode and comprehend books. He wrote grocery lists for me.

I got a few comments from preschool teachers who found it freaky and weird, but that was about it. [/quote]

Ok. So he learned from a TV show...[/quote]

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